So, the effort to turn the Zarqawi bombing into a Haditha-type incident has begun.
This Reuters story quotes locals in Hibhib, the town where Zarqawi met his well-deserved fate, as saying the farmhouse in question was the home of “displaced people”:
“Zarqawi. Zarqawi. Zarqawi. That’s all we hear about. Zarqawi was not here. This home belonged to displaced people,” said a village resident, holding up a teddy bear and a child’s knapsack buried in the destruction.
I guess the Reuters reporter hadn’t seen this photo. But, in a sense his story is accurate. Any terrorist who has been on the run for the last five years is, technically, a displaced person.
